Location: Quincy, MA
Salary: $54.00 USD Hourly - $64.00 USD Hourly
Description: IT Senior AWS DeveloperLocation: Quincy, MA Duration: 1+ YearsPosition Overview
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) is seeking to hire a motivated IT Senior AWS Developer to join its Medicaid Systems Development (MSD) team supporting MassHealth Applications.
MassHealth applications provide critical support for access to healthcare services for vulnerable populations throughout Massachusetts.
The Sr. AWS Developer's primary role is to support the design and development of a serverless application that enables providers to submit online forms and seamlessly transmit files to a document management system. The solution captures and stores metadata during upload sessions in a PostgreSQL RDS database for audit and compliance purposes.
This position is anticipated to be a minimum six-month engagement with the possibility of extension.
Organization OverviewThe Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) is the largest secretariat in Massachusetts state government, comprised of 16 agencies with over 23,000 employees statewide.
EOHHS services directly touch the lives of more than one in four residents in the Commonwealth, including:
- Children
- Youth
- Adults
- Elders
- Individuals with disabilities
- Veterans
- Low-income families
Services provided include:
- Medical and behavioral healthcare
- Substance misuse treatment
- Long-term services and support
- Nutritional and financial benefits
- Employment support
- Housing assistance
- Supportive services
- Child welfare services
- Services for developmentally disabled individuals
- Mental health support
- Services for blind, deaf, or hard-of-hearing individuals
Responsibilities - Responsible for the analysis, design, coding, debugging, testing, and documentation in the development and maintenance of critical applications.
- Accountable for full systems development life cycle including:
- System architecture documents
- Technical design documents
- Release management guides
- Deployment plans
- Other technical artifacts
- Prepare SQL scripts for modifying and maintaining data.
- Write optimized queries and views for integration with other applications.
- Document and maintain code using change control software.
- Support cross-functional projects and integrated business solutions to enhance stakeholder capabilities and efficiencies.
- Work with cross-functional teams to manage projects, create statements of work, and communicate progress on goals to both technical and non-technical groups.
- Adhere to established policies and procedures.
Required SkillsAWS Cloud Platform (Essential)
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience including:
- Building
- Deploying
- Troubleshooting
- Configuration
AWS Serverless Development (3+ Years)
Experience with:
- AWS Lambda (Python runtime)
- AWS Step Functions
- API Gateway (REST/HTTP APIs)
- Amazon Cognito
- CloudFormation
- Terraform
- AWS CDK
- Amazon S3
- Amazon CloudWatch
Front-End Development - 3+ years of React development experience
- Modern React patterns:
- Hooks
- Context
- Functional Components
- JavaScript ES6+
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Redux or Context API
- Responsive design
- Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1)
Backend & Database - 4+ years of Python development experience
- 3+ years of PostgreSQL RDS experience
Including:
- Relational database design
- Database optimization
- Query writing
- Performance tuning
- Connection pooling
- Security best practices
Integration & Document Processing - SOAP web services integration
- REST web services integration
- Document processing and conversion libraries
- File upload handling and validation
- Binary data processing
- Encoding techniques
Additional Technical QualificationsDevOps & Architecture
- GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
- Security best practices for serverless applications
- OpenAPI / Swagger
- Docker
- Containerization concepts
- Microservices architecture patterns
Enterprise Integration
- CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) - highly preferred
- Enterprise document management systems
- SOAP/XML web services
- MTOM attachments
- Metadata schemas
- Content type management
Development Practices
- Git version control
- Branching strategies
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Automated testing frameworks
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Code reviews
- Technical documentation best practices
Soft Skills - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong debugging skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to create technical documentation
- Experience working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
- Ability to quickly understand existing codebases and systems
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent relevant work experience
- 8+ years of programming experience in a team environment
- Strong working knowledge of Oracle and Java/J2EE technologies
- Ability to design SQL databases based on application demands and data models
- Working knowledge of application servers, ideally WebLogic and AWS
- Proven ability to write well-designed, efficient, and testable code
- Experience supporting a test-driven development culture
- Knowledge of information and security architectures
- Experience programming within Agile methodologies
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